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Just finished two new alphabet designs, to make-up for some sold-out designs, which I am going to send out with a catalogue (posh name for A4 folded) with some Berwick Bear cards, and a plug for The Midnight Hare on the back. The colours in this look a little dimmer than I would like, but hopefully in a different mode and printed from a PDF they should be OK. My stuff was in store for seven years (in the meantime I got married) and now I find I have a whole heap of Alphabet Postcards which I am going all out to sell (the National Trust sold them for years, but then suddenly stopped; and also I sold them at the local Farmers’ Market in Berwick, which is no longer extant, which explains why I have quite a few left), whilst I think of doing something quite different. I have started using a sketchbook, so different from drawing off photographs, or taking photographs; I feel I am starting to learn all over again – that is if I ever did – a good/worrying feeling. I novels already in the world, and the visual might provide a different element into the theme. We shall see.

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I’m Cara, and I live in Coldstream, in the Scottish Borders As well as writing and illustrating books for children I have recently been painting on canvas, in my octagonal studio (aka The Tardis) which inhabits a corner of the vegetable garden. My work for children has been published in several countries, and translated into different languages. My favourite form at the moment is the picture book, but I have also had published poetry, children’s novels, and illustrations for the work of other authors. I go out most days with my camera and create blog entries from the results. Some of the pictures I take will be used as background material for the picture book which I am working on at the moment. My son Matty set up this WordPress blog for me, and it has added a dimension to my life which surprises me. It is also interesting and inspiring to read the blogs of other people from different parts of the world, and to look at their sometimes fascinating pictures.